Today's Q&A episode is inspired by a question I received from Samantha. I've been trying to be more

consistent this year with my Instagram stories, sharing what's actually going on in my garden.

And one evening I was walking through my garden and I decided to share how I'm using a form

of succession planting called relay planting. Those of you who

have been in my course dream to garden or have been to any of my workshops know what that is.

It's where before a plant actually gets removed from your garden because it's done with its season,

you actually plant a new plant beside it and they grow together for a certain

period of time in the same soil before you take the original plant out and then the second plant

overtakes and works in that season and grows in that season. I was giving an example of how I'm

doing that in one of my beds where I have had peppers and eggplant growing all summer.

They are getting ready to be at the end of their season right now, but underneath them a few

weeks ago, I planted celery, which has done really well. The purpose of that was to plant the

celery in an area where it would

receive some sort of shade because at this point the eggplants and the peppers were really tall.

So that helped to shade out the soil and just make it where it was a little bit easier for the celery

to be able to thrive in our late August summer weather is the way that I that I timed it. And then I also

planted collard greens from seed underneath the peppers as well. So it's hard to kind of visualize

when you're listening to me. But basically I've got a four by four garden. I've got two

eggplants in the back of it and I've got a four by four garden. I've got two eggplants in the back of it,

and I've got a pepper plant in the center. I planted celery in the front and celery kind of in

the back behind the eggplants. And then in the center we have the peppers, and I planted

collard greens on either side of the peppers. Again, part of that purpose was for the pepper to be able to shade

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